Death
thoughts on dying
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Death
Do not stand
By my grave, and weep.
I am not there,
I do not sleep—
I am the thousand winds that blow
I am the diamond glints in snow
I am the sunlight on ripened grain,
I am the gentle, autumn rain.
As you awake with morning’s hush,
I am the swift, up-flingi
"The river needs to take the risk of entering the ocean because only then will fear disappear, because that’s where the river will know it’s not about disappearing into the ocean, but of becoming the ocean.”
(Khalil Gibran)
"When death finds you, may it find you alive."
-African proverb
-African proverb
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The morning before he died in the final year of his seventies, he drafted a poem containing these lines:
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will happen. I’m [still] here writing it down
just the way it was. “You don’t have to
prove anything,” my mother said. “Just be ready
for what God sends.” I listened and put my hand
out in the sun again.
Maria Popova • Yes: William Stafford’s Poetic Calibration of Perspective
Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
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The Human cannot abide the thought of death and can hardly bear being alive.
